Re: /etc/paths

2015-02-06 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Feb 6, 2015, at 2:09 PM, Lawrence Velázquez wrote: > (1) We consider /etc/paths to be a "system file". We don't like modifying > system files. > (2) Modifying /etc/paths affects all users' settings, which is undesirable. Actually it is desirable, or it has at least been desired by some users

Re: /etc/paths

2015-02-06 Thread Michael
> (1) We consider /etc/paths to be a "system file". We don't like modifying > system files. Undertstood; I was thinking of the /etc/paths.d directory. > (2) Modifying /etc/paths affects all users' settings, which is undesirable. Ahh ... Very good. Not all users will want that. > > vq --- Ente

Re: /etc/paths

2015-02-06 Thread Lawrence Velázquez
On Feb 6, 2015, at 1:49 PM, Michael wrote: > On 2015-02-06, at 10:25 AM, Luc Bourhis wrote: > >> Not launchd, no. It's for the shell and it helps with MANPATH too. "man >> path_helper" for the details. > > Interesting. I'm surprised MacPorts doesn't stuff something in there. (1) We consider

Re: /etc/paths

2015-02-06 Thread Brandon Allbery
On Fri, Feb 6, 2015 at 1:49 PM, Michael wrote: > Interesting. I'm surprised MacPorts doesn't stuff something in there. In the past, it forced paths from /etc/paths after the system ones, whereas people tend to want MacPorts installs to override system ones. I don't know if this is still true.

Re: /etc/paths

2015-02-06 Thread Michael
On 2015-02-06, at 10:25 AM, Luc Bourhis wrote: > > On 6 Feb 2015, at 19:21, Michael wrote: > >>> Shame on me! You are right. This is a new computer and /etc/paths did not >>> get copied from the old one as I thought. Sorry for the noise and thanks for >>> your patience! >> >> /etc/paths? >>

Re: /etc/paths

2015-02-06 Thread Dave Horsfall
On Fri, 6 Feb 2015, Michael wrote: > /etc/paths? This is the first I've seen any indication of this. Where is > this documented? Is this the apple-approved way to add stuff to PATH for > programs run by launchD? And what other little secrets are there? I've learned more about OSX from reading

Re: /etc/paths

2015-02-06 Thread Luc Bourhis
On 6 Feb 2015, at 19:21, Michael wrote: >> Shame on me! You are right. This is a new computer and /etc/paths did not >> get copied from the old one as I thought. Sorry for the noise and thanks for >> your patience! > > /etc/paths? > This is the first I've seen any indication of this. Where is

/etc/paths

2015-02-06 Thread Michael
>Shame on me! You are right. This is a new computer and /etc/paths did not > get copied from the old one as I thought. Sorry for the noise and thanks for > your patience! /etc/paths? This is the first I've seen any indication of this. Where is this documented? Is this the apple-approved way to ad

Re: Mono -- does it really need X11?

2015-02-06 Thread René J . V . Bertin
On Friday February 06 2015 09:24:56 Michael wrote: > Mono's library dependencies: > Library Dependencies: gettext, glib2, libiconv, zlib, libgdiplus, xorg-libX11 If mono depends on X11 directly and not through GTk2, then it won't be as easy to avoid the dependency as I thought ... > And, Gtk2 a

Re: Mono -- does it really need X11?

2015-02-06 Thread Michael
The standard library includes the GUI components, and I don't think current >> versions make it very easy to split out just the C# compiler and basic >> libraries. > > And I'd guess that C# doesn't make a lot of sense without being able to use > GUI thingies. > > However, Mono uses GTk2, no? And

Re: Mono -- does it really need X11?

2015-02-06 Thread René J . V . Bertin
On Friday February 06 2015 11:33:22 Brandon Allbery wrote: > The standard library includes the GUI components, and I don't think current > versions make it very easy to split out just the C# compiler and basic > libraries. And I'd guess that C# doesn't make a lot of sense without being able to us

Re: Mono -- does it really need X11?

2015-02-06 Thread Brandon Allbery
On Fri, Feb 6, 2015 at 11:31 AM, Michael wrote: > I'm trying to install a program that needs mono, because it's written for > C#. > So, I try to install mono from macports. > ... and it wants to pull in all of X11? Does C# really require X11? > The standard library includes the GUI components, a

Mono -- does it really need X11?

2015-02-06 Thread Michael
I'm trying to install a program that needs mono, because it's written for C#. So, I try to install mono from macports. ... and it wants to pull in all of X11? Does C# really require X11? --- Entertaining minecraft videos http://YouTube.com/keybounce _